This was a bicycle wheel that Marcel Duchamp stuck on a barstool, upside down. He found it very fascinating to spin and didn't think about it as a piece of art. Later it became known as a "readymade" and another version was put out. It's amazing how something so simple and entertaining can be a famous work of art. Especially the toilet from my earlier blog.
It WAS a urinal--just saying. :) And conceptually, this is a rather complex idea, right--a readymade as high art?--how did these works shift our paradigms related to artmaking, the art object, and the institution itself?
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